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February 11, 2010
It's the Hubris, Stupid!
Posted by The MaryHunter at February 11, 2010 11:22 AM
To extend the "stupid is dangerous to your health" theme, Michael Barone has a few related thoughts on Team Obama:
How could such smart people do so many stupid things? That question, or variations on it, is being asked in Washington and around the country about the Obama administration.
The same people who directed the campaign that defeated Hillary Clinton and routed John McCain, a campaign that raised far more money and attracted far more volunteers than any before it, have within a year come up with a legislative program that is crashing in ruins and that, to judge from recent polls, has left the Democratic Party weaker than I have seen it in almost 50 years of closely following politics.
Team Obama failed to realize they were no longer running in Chicago or in the Democratic primaries or facing an electorate fed up with Republicans. And, more important, they failed to realize that vastly expanding government goes deeply against the American grain -- and against the basic appeal of their successful campaign.
Indeed, former Virginia governor and continuing Obama devotee Douglas Wilder has a great idea for Dear Leader: dump the Chicago political machine that got Obama elected and is is currently calling the shots in the Obama White House.
It's not rocket science where the American public wants the president to concentrate his energies. In all the above elections I cited [Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts], voters were practically screaming one word with four simple letters: Jobs.
People will rightly hold Obama accountable. Obama must in turn hold the people on his own team accountable.
Taking the Wilder idea to its logical (though surely unintended) conclusion, the very head of Obama's Chicago political machine -- The One, himself -- should also be sacked. Think about it: 3 years of President Biden would not likely be any worse than what we have now, and would most certainly guarantee a Republican victory come November 2012.
On an insightful tip from Bergbiker.
